Internationally recognized practice RMJM Architects have recently announced their groundbreaking $1 billon mixed-use complex for the Atasehir district, the growing residential and business area of Istanbul, Turkey. RMJM’s complex will allow the new business center to flourish by serving 20,000 people and providing for a variety of their needs. The project will be revolutionary for Turkey as it w..
We recently shared Albert McDonald’s winning entry for the COD competition, and now SO Architecture just shared their proposal with us. The proposal entitled “Free Plan (T)” incorporates the free plan of Le Corbusier in an effort to leave the inner organization undisturbed. Yet, the free plans also means “no walls shall disturb one to live among nature”. Taking inspiration from Raymond’s work an..
The Romanian architects from AA Studio have sent us photos of an apartment interior they have designed in Bucharest. Beside choosing interesting objects and placing them in harmony with the surroundings, an interior design implies re- thinking the whole space, resulting a concept that satisfies the client’s needs and requests and also who reflects the ingenuity and talent of the architects. It l..
The Opposite House Hotel opened in the summer of 2008 in Beijing’s vibrant Sanlitun district. Designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates, the hotel’s 99 contemporary guest rooms are among the largest in Beijing with more than half being over 70 sqm. The rooms are strikingly simple with natural wooden floors and subtle touches of Chinese décor, lending each one a sense of place. The name, The Opposite H..
Architects: Single Speed Design Location: North Cambridge, MA, USA Programme: Housing, Commercial Project year: 2008 Site Area: 2,335 sqm Constructed Area: 2,936 sqm Images: Single Speed Design Most are familiar with Boston’s ongoing “Big Dig”- the Central Artery Tunnel Project that is one of the largest construction undertakings in American urban history. Few, however, give thought to the massi..
Architect: Rati Chomakhidze, Studia Arci Location: Tbilisi, Georgia Client: Arci development Design year: 2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Total plot area: 1,105 sqm Total built area: 4,310 sqm Living area: 2,100 sqm Office area: 650 sqm Photographs: Goga Mamasakhlisi The presented project is located in the general development plan of the Vake district and the surrounding area. The general plan..
FORMER ALFA ROMEO FACTORY 2B-2C AREA URBAN PLAN NUOVO PORTELLO The project creates a new city part in coherence with the larger process of transformation affecting the area.The anomalous scale of the existing industrial Alfa Romeo precinct is opened to collective use by tracing a new series of pathways connecting it with the surrounding urban net. A new square along via Traiano generates a new d..
PARKRAND BUILDING Buurt 9 (neighborhood number nine) is a characteristic piece of the Amsterdam Western Garden Cities, a big housing development of the 1950s and 1960s built with the aim to house as many people as quickly as possible. But the design of the Garden Cities has enormous spatial qualities: sequences of spacious parks surround the neighborhoods and give the development its name. Recen..
Introduction This project aimed towards the creation of a small, though outstanding and unique residential building complex in the already densely built area of Varkiza.On the 379 m2 site, the building was positioned semi-attached on the side of the vertical circulation core, leaving the maximum possible distance from the road and allowing the creation of a spacious pool-garden. Additionally, th..
Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleo have completed a social housing project in Madrid, Spain. The large block is divided into thirty smaller, staggered blocks of apartments, creating communal patios throughout the building and allowing air and light to penetrate between the homes. In Madrid-Sanchinarro the first residents received the keys to their apartment..